odious…

Over the last few years, with  Jubilee 2000 and Make Poverty History, Churches and other groups have campaigned tirelessly for the cancelation of debt in the poorer nations of this world.  So often we forget that nations in the west are still making demands for repayment of unfair or even illegitemate or “odious” loans made to countries for the purposes of arms trading, sustaining illegitemate regimes and oppressing millions of people.  Justin Alexander, in his most recent contribution to God’s Politics challenges us to think about the way the international financial institutions continue to operate to the benefit of the already-rich west and the detriment of the poor.  Have a read, and then go over to the Jubilee Campaign and add your voice to the challenges for  Douglas Alexander, Brown’s new Secretary of State for International Development.